I agree, why should it be the underpaid pilots that subsidise the Waterworld hoards.
Another point: The govt. are supposedly in favour of the use of public transport. Why then do they continue to impose the passenger taxes on airline flights. Certainly domestically the airlines compete with the railways, and I'm sure they would'nt get away with such a tax on railway passengers. If the airlines kept the fares at present levels, it would mean that at last they could make more sensible profits, and the increases which pilots are due could be paid with a small fraction of what was taken in these taxes.